Watch and listen to our year-2 CLIL students describing themselves, talking about their future and giving interesting opinions about what CLIL has meant for them these two years. It is not about saying goodbye! It is about saying ‘I love you’ and ‘Good Luck!’. I am NOT going to forget you!

How to create a news-reading project?. In groups, you will film a video in which you will appear as newsreaders reading different pieces of news. The main elements of this cross-curricular project will be: Como crear un telexornal en vídeo? En grupos, teredes que gravar un vídeo no que apareceredes como telexornalistas dando as novas. Os elementos proncipais deste proxecto interdisciplinar serán:Continue Reading

The final group project this year will take you a lot of time and work, but it will be worth it. It is going to be about food, music, historical costumes, acting, filming…all of it framed by a historical perpective. In groups, you will film a video in which you (dressed with historical costumes) will appear cooking a history-related recipe as well as giving step-by-step instructions for making that dish and commenting on its relationship to a particular historical period. The main elements of this cross-curricular project will be:

Yesterday we held a farewell event for Sam, our language assistant. He has become an important part of our school life in Negreira and we are sure he will become a wonderful teacher of Spanish in England. That is why saying goodbye to him got us very emotional and sad, after sharing a never-to-forget whole year of experiences with him. It was funny though to see Inés Tuñas, Aroa Peillet, Alberto Estévez and Álvaro Alvite lip-synching to Let it Be, by the Beatles (Sam’s favourite band of all time). Clara Cristela, our CLIL teacher, and me, followed by the students José Ramón Cisneros (3ESO) and Sara Riveiro (1BAC) dedicated some moving words to Sam and then Sam read a farewell letter in his already perfect Spanish. This year our English has definitely turned much better, as well as his Spanish (and even his Galician!). See you soon, Sam!

Yesterday we left London and it felt really sad because the experience turned out very funny and… unforgettable. We all knew this 5-day trip was a kind of a farewell thing. Students grow up and go, we all know that. I think I am getting a bit emotional… Anyway, we decided to spend our last day visiting the famous Abbey Road zebra crossing (took some cool pics there) and after that, we did some research to find out whereabouts Harry Potter’s Platform 9¾ is. And we found it: it is in King’s Cross Railway Station, which is considered one of the main train stations to serve London. As all Harry Potter readers know, students of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry take the Hogwarts Express to Hogwarts from Platform 9¾ on 1 September at 11 AM sharp. To get to Platform 9¾, you run straight at the wall between 9 and 10. If you are late for the train, the portal closes from the outside at 11am sharp automatically. We were not there on 1 September at 11 AM sharp, but we found the famous Platform and got some pics.

Today we have lived one of the most exciting and difficult-to-forget experiences in this trip and in my life… and (hopefully) in my students’ lives. Thanks to Belén Bueso, a very good friend of mine working now as Language Resource Centre Planner and SPOC Team Leader in Amnesty International (http://www.amnesty.org), we could visit Amnesty International London headquarters. We were received there by the nicest and most welcoming people: Belén, Miguel and David showed us around the two buildings (located in 1 Easton Street, in the London Borough of Islington) and told us a lot of things about how everything works in AI. When we were finishing our visit, Salil Shetty himself, Secretary General of Amnesty International, came to talk to us and we could take some pics with him. He was really inspiring as usual (see video below) and I do hope his message and the message of AI will get through to my students. The seed has been planted.

And then came the rain…After the transport thing got sorted out, water started falling from the sky, but nothing could stop us from going on with the things planned. Our scheduled visit to the IES Cañada Blanch in Portobello Road took place thanks again to Xaime Varela, as lovely as usual (see his blog here: http://galegoenlondres.blogspot.co.uk). Our students were talking to Xaime’s British and Spanish students there. Then, Antía Suárez and Sara Riveiro gave a wonderful bilingual presentation about Negreira and our IES Xulián Magariños, which had been prepared by all our students.